File Upload Permissions

Hey guys I'm trying to get my File Upload to work. It seems as though on the Paradox server, I cannot get my file permissions to go higher than 755, so "others" cannot write and I think this is why my file upload is not working. Here is my code just to make sure that's the issue:

$origName = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
$origSize = $_FILES['userfile']['size'];
$origType = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];

echo "File Name: $origName<br />File Size: $origSize<br />File Type: $origType";

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "uploads/$origName");

I'm pretty sure that was the correct way of doing it.